Eckwarden

Eckwarden Butjadingen municipality Coordinates: 53 ° 32 ′ 3 ″  N , 8 ° 16 ′ 8 ″  E
Height :	3 m above sea level NN
Incorporation :	1933
Incorporated into:	Burhave
Postal code :	26969
Area code :	04736
Location of Eckwarden in Lower Saxony

Eckwarder Siel and Eckwarden sport boat harbor (aerial photo 2012)

St. Lamberti Church Eckwarden in winter

The place Eckwarden is a municipality Butjadingen in Wesermarsch in Lower Saxony and is located at the southern tip of the homonymous peninsula . The village is very much influenced by agriculture .

history

Eckwarden must have existed long before the Jade Bay was created. The first written evidence for the old Wurtendorf comes from the 12th century. The name Eckwarderbrügge keeps appearing as the meeting place for the Rüstringers . The meetings consisted of 16 jurors, all of them incumbents from the parishes . Together they exercised a kind of self-administration .

In 1398 Eckwarden was ruled by a chief named Edo Wummeken . He made a pact with pirates . About a hundred years later, the Count of Oldenburg became the sole ruler of Butjadingen. The Counts of Oldenburg were important dike builders. They also seized the church property in Roddens and Inte near Eckwarden.

In 1745/46 a terrible epidemic raged in Butjadingen, which killed 1680 cows, 281 oxen and 1137 heads of young cattle. Another important moment in Eckwarden's history was the building of a battery in grand dignity in 1810 by Napoleon Bonaparte . They acted as bases for the continental barrier against English goods, because smuggling was booming at that time. With the Jade contract of July 20, 1853, Oldenburg sold Eckwarderhörne to the Crown of Prussia . By the Greater Hamburg Law of 1937 it came back into Oldenburg hands.

In 1907 the construction of the famous Butjenter Railway started. Two years later the first train ran from Nordenham to Eckwarderhörne. With that a new time began; Eckwarden experienced a significant boom and a real construction boom. In the summer months, the Butjenter Bahn had over 20,000 passengers.

The Second World War also affected Eckwarden. In 1943 a bomb attack destroyed houses in Eckwarden and the surrounding area. The fire brigade struggled for days with the damage caused by the attack; The women also helped because many men were at war.

In 1933, Eckwarden was incorporated into what was then the municipality of Burhave . This was officially renamed Butjadingen in 1936 . When this community was dissolved in 1948, Eckwarden did not regain its independence. Since March 1st 1974 it belongs to the new municipality Butjadingen.

The “farmer poet” Hinrich Janssen lived in Eckwarden for 40 years.

See also : Rüstringen , Grafschaft Oldenburg and House Oldenburg

Attractions

St. Lamberti Church

Transport links

Ferry connections exist over the Weser from Nordenham to Bremerhaven and in the summer months over the Jade Bay from Eckwarderhörne to Wilhelmshaven . There is a train connection to Bremen from Nordenham. The community is connected to the A27 via the Weser Tunnel south of Nordenham . Via Varel and Jaderberg you get to the A29 .

Web links

Commons : Eckwarden  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Information about Butjadingen in general and Eckwarden

Individual evidence

1. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 276 .
2. ↑ Sights: St. Lamberti Church , accessed on October 18, 2018.
3. ↑ St. Lamberti Church Eckwarden , accessed on October 18, 2018.
4. ↑ Eckwarden, St. Lamberti , accessed on October 18, 2018.
5. ^ Hermann Haiduck: The architecture of the medieval churches in the East Frisian coastal area . 2nd Edition. Ostfriesische Landschaftliche Verlags- und Vertriebs-GmbH, Aurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-940601-05-6 , p. 24, 144 f .